Man Ho Allen Au received bachelor's and master's degrees from the Department of Information Engineering, Chinese University of Hong Kong, in 2003 and 2005 respectively, and a PhD from the University of Wollongong, Australia, in 2009. Currently, he is an assistant professor at the Dept. of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Before moving to Hong Kong in Jul. 2014, he was been a lecturer at the School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Wollongong, Australia.
Dr. Au's research interests include information security and privacy, applied cryptography, accountable anonymity, and cloud computing. He has published over 90 papers in those areas in journals such as IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, ACM Transaction on Information and System Security and international conferences including the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) and the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS). His work has received various awards, including the ACISP 2016 Best Paper Award and runner-up for a PET award in 2009 for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies.
He has served as a program committee member for over 30 international conferences and workshops. He is also a program committee co-chair of the 8th International Conference on Network and System Security and the 9th International Conference on Provable Security. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Information Security and Applications, Elsevier. He has served as a guest editor for various journals including Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier, and Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Wiley.
Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo currently holds the Cloud Technology Endowed Professorship at the University of Texas at San Antonio, and is an associate professor at the University of South Australia, and a guest professor at the China University of Geosciences. He has been an invited speaker for a number of events, such as the 2011 UNODC-ITU Asia-Pacific Regional Workshop on Fighting Cybercrime, the Korean (Government) Institute of Criminology (2013), the UNAFEI and UAE Government conference in 2014, and the World Internet Conference (Wuzhen Summit) in 2014, jointly organized by the Cyberspace Administration of China and the People's Government of Zhejiang Province. He has also been a Keynote/Plenary Speaker at conferences, such as the SERENE-RISC Spring 2016 Workshop, the IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Data Intensive Systems (DSDIS 2015), and those organized by Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore, A*Star, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Management University (2015), the Cloud Security Alliance New Zealand (2015), CSO Australia and Trend Micro (2015), the Anti-Phishing Working Group (2014), the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (2014), the Asia Pacific University of Technology & Innovation (Malaysia; 2014), the Nanyang Technological University (Singapore; 2011), and National Chiayi University (Taiwan; 2010), and he has been an Invited Expert at UNAFEI Criminal Justice Training in 2015, at the INTERPOL Cyber Research Agenda Workshop 2015, and at the Taiwan Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau's 2015 International Symposium on Regional Security and Transnational Crimes. He was named one of the 10 Emerging Leaders in the Innovation category of The Weekend Australian Magazine/Microsoft's Next 100 series in 2009, and is the recipient of various awards, including the ESORICS 2015 Best Research Paper Award, the Highly Commended Award from Australia New Zealand Policing Advisory Agency in 2014, a Fulbright Scholarship in 2009, a British Computer Society's Wilkes Award in 2008, and the 2008 Australia Day Achievement Medallion, and was on the winning team in Germany's University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) Digital Forensics Research Challenge in 2015. He is also a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society, and a senior member of the IEEE.